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Dissatisfaction is one of the hallmarks of youth culture.
Everything sucks, right?

Some young people just accept this as fact, toeing the line and
sinking into a state of inertia and apathy. But then there are
the others, those audacious ones who set out to shake things
up--sometimes with dizzying success.

Every year we profile high-earning entrepreneurs who are 30 or
younger. This time around, we've come up with a group of
revolutionaries who are truly disrupting their respective
industries. Whether it's turning the entrenched cell phone
service model on its head, reinventing the time-honored (yet
unwieldy) real-estate transaction or reimagining audio equipment
in an affordable and sustainable way, these young businesspeople
had the creativity, smarts and cojones to find--and capitalize
on--solutions to nagging obstacles they faced.

These young
entrepreneurs are not only doing what they love, they are
raking in the proceeds. And if some of them seem a bit cocky, a
bit punk--well, they've earned that right. They fought back and
won. A bit of braggadocio comes with the territory.

In the fall of 2004, when 18-year-old Pakistani squash
champion Ahmed Khattak arrived at Yale to play for the
university and take advantage of a full academic scholarship,
his first priority was to buy a cell phone to call his family
back home. Read More »

Chaotic Moon is the most experienced,
innovative and awesome mobile studio out there--according to
Chaotic Moon, that is. Over-the-top boasts and
tongue-in-cheek self-affirmations are plastered across the
Austin, Texas, startup's website, proclaiming its
unrivaled mastery over all phases of mobile software
development... Read More
»

A mere three months after Jason Lucash and Mike Szymczak
started their company OrigAudio, they hit the jackpot. It was
November 2009, and out of the blue, Time magazine called
about featuring their Fold and Play Recycled Speakers among
its "Best Inventions of 2009." Read More »

Nikhil Arora, 25, and Alejandro Velez, 24, didn't plan on
being mushroom farmers. In 2009, during their last semester
at the University of California, Berkeley, Arora lined up a
corporate consulting job and Velez nabbed one in investment
banking... Read More »

In real estate, signing on the dotted line is never really as
simple as that. For brokers, it involves driving back and
forth, lugging around a briefcase full of paperwork, tracking
down unresponsive clients--and a whole lot of "who has what?"
panic... Read More »